Ships of this size accounted for over a quarter of all container ship traffic through the Panama Canal since the start of 2025. When compared to last year, 30 percent more Neo sub-Panamax vessels ...

A pair of shipping lines are bumping up the size of their existing container vessels in a move that — if it catches on — could hurt traffic at the expanded Panama Canal. According to maritime ...

PANAMA CITY — A 984-foot Chinese container ship cleared the new massive locks of the Panama Canal on Sunday, becoming the first to officially pass through the expanded canal and sparking a new ...

The Panama Canal Authority (ACP) will maintain a depth limit of 44 feet, or 13.41 meters, for neo-Panamax container ships.

The Panama Canal will expand restrictions on the largest ships crossing the waterway, ... limit neo-Panamax container ships to a depth limit of 43.5 feet (13.3 metres) ...

Among the Neo-Panamax users of the Panama Canal in April, container vessels made up 45% of traffic, followed by carriers of liquefied petroleum gas, dry bulk and liquefied natural gas.

Soon the Panama Canal Authority ... 2016 to handle larger container ships from Asia. The Panama Canal expansion itself is a 48-mile channel connecting the Atlantic and Pacific oceans to handle growing ...

Neo-Panamax ships can continue to sail at the previous depth limit of 13.41 m and Panamax ships can move at 12.04 m, the canal authority said in an advisory to customers seen by Reuters.

The U.S. is the largest user of the Panama Canal, with total U.S. commodity export and import containers representing about 73% of Panama Canal traffic, and 40% of all U.S. container traffic ...